I remeber hearing someone knocking forks as an illness, and while it can be, overall I see it just simply as more development, more contribution to the community from which others can then pull from. I certainly subscribe to taking the best of the best.

I've tried SaxenOS 2.0 and found it to be slower than molasses running uphill in the wintertime. Their installer is counter-intuitive in places and tends to ask questions that don't need to be asked and doesn't ask questions where they really do need to not make assumptions. At one point it even asks you to click Finish when a process is completed rather than just moving on. SaxenOS installer is a very poor model for VL.

Wolvix 1.1rc2 is impressive. They've done a really nice job with it and it is lightning fast when run from RAM or installed to a hard drive (frugal or full install). It's Xfce 4.4 based and has a nice selection of apps.